Hello
Firstly I`d like to say thanks to everyone who has been listening, and who have picked up on the Cart On Stanley Song.
When I found this forum and saw what everyone was saying I was like Amazed.
I wrote this song as one writer says A Bright New Song for a Bright new era of Stanley.
The aim was to give the stanley crowd a song of their own that when sung in unison would rival the kop who`s singing someone elses song anyway.
This song words and music would be original and personal to Stanley.
A lot of people write in not knowing what Cart On means and I`m surprised cos I`m a Ribble Valley Woollyback who`s only lived in Accrington for twenty years, but for 19.9 I`ve know the phrase.
The gentleman with the travelling workman has the origin correct but as for its meaning and context in the song its literally as its used in speech today i.e To Go Ahead, Give it a shot.
It can be used as an encouragement to someone down or as an applaud to someone doing well.
I`m sorry if it`s a bit too ey up for you kids out there but we`re Stanley from Lancashire we`ve got lancashire accents and you`re only wearing crap yankee baseball hats cos you cant get decent flat caps these days.
It also fits nicely with Eric`s Box Co.
It has intentionally comical connotations (whatever that spells) (Sorry for saying Exactly we couldn`t help it) other teams can`t deride us cos we`re prepaped to laugh at our selves, as any truly centred human being should. But the song also celebrates the long and eventful history of the club and also calls for unity in support of the glorious goal. It`s Stanley`s first season back in the league and anyone with their eyes open knows its gonna be tough to live with but if the crowd are united in belief and are raising their hearts and voices in support it`s the momentum that the team are going to need.
At the end of the day it`s an honest supporters song with no bull, everyword is true. Exactly (sorry again)
Anway what most people want is to get hold of this for themselves.
At the moment you can get just a sample clip from our website
Someone has posted a link to the clip already but ofishially here it is Again
http://www.celticcross.co.uk/news/stanley.htm
on this page you will find the middle third of the song and a complete lyric.
The 1st third and last third just have the same bits with the other verses sung over.
I kept it pretty simple so as many people as poss could pick it up quick.
You should be able to cobble it together if they keep playing it at half time.
In the near future we hope to release this on a CD hopefully featuring some other tracks currently under construction. These we hope to feature Stanley Chants past present and future over some nice beaty tunes. (If Ultras or Stanley Diehards have any ideas we would love to include them. Remember it`s a family CD (My 2 yr old daughter leaps around the room to Cart On and plays it repeatedly - Thats my girl !)
If everything gets the full approval and support of the club we will announce a release date and hopefully do a gig for U.
It would be nice if the whole Stanley crowd bought it in the first week as that would make it chart. Even if we never sold another copy we would have infected the nation with "Cart On Stanley, Cart ON"
Maybe we`d even raise some funds from people buying it inTorquay (not forgetting my considerable slice as musical genius) No Charades its what I do for a livin. (Hours - Anti-social, Pay - Poor)
It`d be a laugh anyway.
If you wanna hear us playing live have a look at the live dates on out website, we`ve also got lots of other COMPLETE songs to download there, pictures and info if you want to book us.
OMG is that the time. I`ll look back here soon if there`s any more questions.
Keep the Faith
Luv
Z
Celtic Cross
www.celticcross.co.uk
Nothing to do with any shoddy green and white outfit from north of the border who cant even pronounce it right.